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well I would say it's not major but , 4 to 6 months to heal isn't good ethier ...but maybe he was just overstating it alittle , I am sure he has been confering with a doctor all this time I would assume.

I think he suffered the tear awhile back , he also has a deep bone bruise , which those can take awhile to heal also.

about all that's been said is this

A partially torn ligament in his left knee probably will keep Pacers' forward Jermaine O'Neal from participating in the Summer Olympics in Athens.

Shortly after the Pacers bowed out of the Eastern Conference finals with a 69-65 loss to Detroit in Game 6, O'Neal said his knee "will take four to six months to heal."

He's always exaggerated his owies a bit and I'm wondering if this doesn't give him a handy excuse to beg off the Olympic team. He definately needs the rest after 2-3 years of representing the good ol' USA. Tme to take time off, injured or not.

If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around..

He's always exaggerated his owies a bit and I'm wondering if this doesn't give him a handy excuse to beg off the Olympic team. He definately needs the rest after 2-3 years of representing the good ol' USA. Tme to take time off, injured or not.

Until this injury, I'd agree with you. But knees aren't supposed to bend backward. It looked like a MAJOR injury when it occurred and I was surprised he was able to play. I just hope he didn't make it a lot worse.

6 mths isn't good as that runs into next season! Lets hope he's exaggerating on the time to recouperate!

He's always exaggerated his owies a bit and I'm wondering if this doesn't give him a handy excuse to beg off the Olympic team. He definately needs the rest after 2-3 years of representing the good ol' USA. Tme to take time off, injured or not.

Until this injury, I'd agree with you. But knees aren't supposed to bend backward. It looked like a MAJOR injury when it occurred and I was surprised he was able to play. I just hope he didn't make it a lot worse.

6 mths isn't good as that runs into next season! Lets hope he's exaggerating on the time to recouperate!

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I'm an avid volleyball player among other things, and granted, this is only a finger...but I hyper-extended it by going up for a block. The ball hit my finger hard as I went for the block and bent it all the way backwards so that it stayed in that position. I looked at the thing and it was bent backwards - stuck like that so obviously I was in a little shock - but I would say within 3 weeks it was back to almost 100%.

I guess what I'm saying is that Jermaine's injury could have been a lot worse I think...but since it is the leg, it is more threatening than just a piddly finger . Either way, I think he will be back in time for next season.

I have also hyper-extended my elbow playing soccer, exactly what happened to Jermaine's leg except this was my elbow....just went backwards. Popped a sac in the elbow and bruised the bone and the pain there went away after about a month.

Unfortuantely, it sounds as though Jermaine tore something from the initial post in this thread - so that makes the healing process a lot longer if it is true.